Errors flies from mouth to mouth, from pen to pen, and to destroy it takes ages.

The Pride of every Jew finds cause to believe that the cause of their down fall is not their detestable politics, or ignorance of social graces, but the raft of God. They believe it took a miracle to undo them.

It is the triumph of superior reason to live with folks who don't have any.

Every man is a creature of the age in which he lives and few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time.

Paradise is where I am

Our labour preserves us from three great evils -- weariness, vice, and want.

If one does not reflect, one thinks oneself master of everything; but when one does reflect, one realizes that one is master of nothing.